Reader Response #1
Persepolis
Persepolis is where a young Marjane Satrapi grew up
in Iran. She lived her days in an Islamic Revolution. In the beginning she
tells the reader how the rise of her people were living in a happy and well
balanced civilization. Marjane speaks of how the government control destroyed a
lot of lives in Iran. How in school boys were separated from girls and girls
had to wear a bonnet. In her years as a child she learns the history of what
Iran is going through, the conflicts people had to face and how their lives
will change from the government. Maryjane joins the revolution fight with her
nanny but has no clue of what she is doing.
Marjane encounters a change in her school, children were
divided up in two groups from boys and girls. The girls had to wear a veil over
there head but have no clue why as Marjane explained “We didn’t really like to
wear the veil, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to. (Satrapi
3). Marjane was in the beginning of a “Cultural Revolution.” Maryjane’s mother
joined a demonstration and had her picture on the newspaper. Little Marjane
knot know why her mother was scarred for her life seeing herself in the newspaper.
The mother had to change her appearance to avoid any problems from outside the
house. The father not being in the newspaper as well, set outside and went to
the demonstration and took pictures of the whole event. At school when
demonstrators were happening at the time she had gone to school Maryjane encountered
a problem with one of the teachers. Marjane’s beliefs were offset from others
when at first she wanted to grow up as a prophet but said a doctor to trick every
one of her plan. She wanted to change Iran. Marjane “Wanted to be Justice, Love
and the wrath of god all in one.” (9).
Marjane talked about how the King was presented by god but
the father had to explain everything to Marjane as she may not understand the
story. Her father said “At the time, your grandpa was a young man and the
father of the Shah confiscated everything he owned.” (23). The uncle became a
communist instead and the Iranian police searched everywhere for him to put
under arrest for breaking the law. Another encounter occurred when Maryjane’s nanny
first appeared, she was a teenager and came over a frequently when she met this
boy across the street from the house the nanny was watching. Apparently she had
fallen in love with this boy a few times after visiting a few times. The nanny
had fallen so in love that Maryjane had to write all the letters to the boy
across the street. Not knowing what could happen the nanny kept having Marjane
write letters to the boy. One day the nanny’s story was spread throughout the
family as the uncle heard, and the uncle told the grandmother, whom the
grandmother told the mother and eventually the father heard and went over to
the boy’s house to confess who the nanny is.
It’s not easy living in a country as it’s starting to
crumble down. There shouldn’t be a reason why any boys and girls should separate
because of religious beliefs. Little girls should choose if they want to wear a
veil at school or not. When it come to love and romance, both females and males
should be free to whom they want to be with instead of staying with your own
social class.
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